Editing The Pen Addict 422/transcript (section)

== Hand Sanitizer ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because I want to talk about hand sanitizer and how Sailor has actually made a statement on this. So this is the first pen company that I've seen make a statement about using, you know, we're all living in the COVID times and we're all being very diligent about, you know, keeping our hands clean and not passing germs and things like this. And then I saw our friend Jacob from the Tokyo Inklings podcast on Twitter sent out a link from Sailor where they discussed that, hey, if you have hand sanitizer and you're going to grab your pen, you might see some discoloration issues on our acrylic barrels and they're warning you against, not against using, you know, hand sanitizers, but number one, you don't want to clean your pens with any type of hand sanitizer, any type of alcohol or any type of solvent, anything like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I guess don't, don't use the pens if your hands have not absorbed the sanitizer yet. Right. So like, right. You don't want to go immediately pick it up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yeah. So you don't want to make that, that move right from like, okay, I'm back at my desk, hit the hand sanitizer, grab the pen to start writing. And a couple of people actually responded to Jacob saying, yeah, I saw this. Like someone said they had a platinum curion us where they just use their hand sanitizer. And now they've kind of like clouded up the barrel has gotten cloudy where that hand sanitizer met the barrel of the acrylic. So I thought this was interesting. I think we all kind of assumed that could be the thing, right? Like you wouldn't normally do that or, but we're into contact with so much more, you know, cleaning products nowadays that I thought it was interesting that a company actually came out and said, Hey, you need to be careful with this. So I actually, I, I translated the PDF, which is unfortunate, unfortunate PDF naming Myke on this one by sailor on. Um, so it's the notice it's, uh, on sailors PR page. It's just a PDF and it has the date. They released the page underscore crack dot PDF. So this is a crack dot PDF and, um, a little bit, a little bit unfortunate, I guess. Yeah. Pen cracks. Right. Right. But they could have, you know, I, that one wasn't lost in translation. Like that's the file name when you download the file, but it's saying, um, just saying. And in short, they say the immediate usage of your pen after using a disinfecting product, you should, you should be wary of that. And I thought that was good of them to actually put that in writing, uh, despite the PDF name. So there you go.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I hadn't, no, I had not considered this like, like a thing that I needed to think about, but I guess it makes sense. It's alcohol, right? Like it's gonna, it's gonna eat away at stuff. That's why we put it on our hands.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And I, the, the way I was thinking about this is someone like myself, I rarely leave the house. So that's when I would be using hand sanitizer more. Like when I get into, like, if I go to the post office, you know, I'm using it as soon as I get back in the car, but then I'm driving home and it's a little bit before I'm using a pen right after. I'm not going from like hand sanitizer to pen in any immediate sense. So I haven't seen any problems, but I thought this was good to point out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Should we take a break?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

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